November 2: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining.

Events

• 676 - Donus becomes Pope.
• 1772 - American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
• 1783 - In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
• 1861 - American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
• 1868 - Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally, and is perhaps the first country to do so.
• 1889 - North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• 1895 - The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
• 1899 - The Boers started their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
• 1914 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman sultanate.
• 1917 - Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims support for Jewish settlement in Palestine.
• 1920 - In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
• 1930 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
• 1936 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
• 1936 - the British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
• 1947 - In California, Designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
• 1948 - U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the US presidency.
• 1953 - The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
• 1959 - Quiz show scandals: "Twenty-One" game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
• 1959 - Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
• 1959 - The first section of the M1 motorway, the first in Britain, was opened between the present junctions 5 and 18.
• 1960 - Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
• 1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðìhn Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
• 1964 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
• 1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "the Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
• 1974 - 78 die as the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
• 1976 - U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford to become first candidate from deep south to win since the Civil War.
• 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda become independent from Britain.
• 1982 - Channel 4 in the United Kingdom was launched.
• 1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Day.
• 1984 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
• 1988 - The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
• 1991 - Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 1991 - Jermaine Jackson's single "Word to the Badd!", which attacks his brother Michael, is leaked to radio station KPWR in Los Angeles.
• 2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
• 2001 - Monsters, Inc. debuts with the best ticket sales ever for an animated film.
• 2004 - President George W. Bush wins election over John Kerry.

• 1082 - Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
• 1636 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
• 1667 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)]])
• 1692 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
• 1699 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
• 1734 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
• 1739 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
• 1741 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)
• 1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
• 1766 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
• 1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
• 1808 - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
• 1815 - George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
• 1821 - Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
• 1844 - Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
• 1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
• 1877 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
• 1877 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
• 1877 - Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)
• 1885 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
• 1894 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
• 1897 - Vito Genovese, American gangster (d. 1969)
• 1906 - Daniil Andreev, Russian poet, writer, and mystic (d. 1959)
• 1908 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
• 1911 - Odysseus Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996
• 1911 - Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
• 1913 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1927 - Steve Ditko, American artist
• 1929 - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan
• 1929 - Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• [[1934 - Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis champion
• 1936 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d.1989)
• 1938 - Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
• 1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain
• 1941 - Bruce Welch, rhythm guitarist and songwriter (The Shadows)
• 1942 - Shere Hite, American author
• 1942 - Stefanie Powers, American actress
• 1944 - Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
• 1946 - Alan Jones, Australian race car driver
• 1946 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
• 1954 - Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
• 1955 - Gino Fiume, Australian Goalkeeper
• 1958 - Willie McGee, baseball player
• 1961 - k.d. lang, Canadian singer
• 1963 - Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
• 1965 - Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
• 1966 - Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
• 1969 - Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
• 1974 - Nelly, Rapper (St. Lunatics)
• 1979 - Julie Lund, Danish actress
• 1982 - Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress and singer
• 1986 - Erika Jo, American musician
• 1986 - Lara Sacher, Australian actress
• 1989 - Steven Jones, Musician (guitarist)

• 1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
• 1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
• 1483 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
• 1610 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
• 1618 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
• 1716 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
• 1807 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
• 1863 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
• 1877 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
• 1887 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
• 1898 - George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
• 1905 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
• 1935 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• 1944 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
• 1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1960 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 - James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
• 1963 - Ngo Dihn Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
• 1966 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
• 1984 - Velma Barfield, American murderer (executed) (b. 1932)
• 1986 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)
• 1992 - Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
• 2002 - Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
• 2002 - Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
• 2004 - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
• 2004 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)

• Catholicism - All Souls Day (unless on a Sunday)
• Ancient Latvia - Dveselu Diena held
• Mexico and the United States - Day of the Dead (Spanish: El Dia de los Muertos), a Mexican and Mexican-American celebration of dead ancestors.
• USA - admission day (1889) of North Dakota and South Dakota as 39th and 40th states.
• Rastafari movement - The coronation of Haile Selassie (1930) celebrated

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